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Dark Heavens | Space Ship Girls Quest [Original Setting]

Discussion in 'Questing' started by Biigoh, Apr 23, 2015.

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  1. psnuker

    psnuker Commander of 10 Million Men...

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    Huh, we need a tie-breaker.
     
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  2. pepperjack

    pepperjack A Variety of Cheese

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    I guess that depends on how you count this one:
     
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  3. fitzgerald

    fitzgerald Experienced.

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    [X] Explore on your own! You're a big girl and can handle things on your own.:
     
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  4. NotSpider

    NotSpider Getting out there.

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    [X] Explore with your other big sisters... also buy delicious snacks and trinkets.
     
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  5. Bloodshifter

    Bloodshifter The Bio-Armor Lover

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    [X] Explore with your other big sisters... also buy delicious snacks and trinkets.
     
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  6. Biigoh

    Biigoh Primordial Tanuki Moderator

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    Current Tally
    [X] 12 Explore with your other big sisters... also buy delicious snacks and trinkets.: (Xicree, Bloodshifter, pepperjack, hunter09, unsafejakal, Happerry, joe6168, psnuker, Jiven, Minion #Q, NotSpider, Penwriter)
    -[X] 1 Stick with So, Aoi and Aki where you can. Spotters make life easy for cruisers!: (pepperjack)
    [X] 10 Explore on your own! You're a big girl and can handle things on your own.: (wayne82444, Sheaman3773, Least Devotee, BFldyq, mannan, Thinky Think, shaderic, SerbobIV, redaeth, fitzgerald)
    [X] 2 Stay with Big Sister ChiChi and hide behind her, you're not used to so many PEOPLE. Also some of their pets are scary.: (OverReactionGuy, inverted_helix)
    [X] 1 Explore with Aoi and Aki.: (Fallenblades643)
     
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  7. Biigoh

    Biigoh Primordial Tanuki Moderator

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    Can someone roll 1d100 for luck?
     
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  8. a2znut

    a2znut Needs more handholding. [Forever DM]

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    Rollin'
    a2znut rolled 1 die of 100 faces, total: 95
    For: Crit Failplx
    Rolled on: July-26-2015, 11:45pm
    95
     
  9. OverReactionGuy

    OverReactionGuy The only Sane one left

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    Holy great RNG gods.

    The next roll is going to kill us.
     
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  10. Penwriter

    Penwriter Industrial-Lewd Complex

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    The dice really like us this quest. I wonder what we find?
     
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  11. pepperjack

    pepperjack A Variety of Cheese

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    Nah, that's, like, all skill.

    We roll dice here super well!

    ... was that a haiku?
     
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  12. ShadowAngelBeta

    ShadowAngelBeta Well worn.

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    A 5-7-5 haiku, not bad for an accident. Well, discounting the last line anyway.
     
  13. Threadmarks: 013 : Trinkets and Snacks
    Biigoh

    Biigoh Primordial Tanuki Moderator

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    As you walked out of the airlock that connected the drydock that Big Sister ChiChi was resting in, you turned and looked back at the ship forms of yourself and your big sisters.

    It was different looking at yourself with your own eyes. It felt odd to have your ship body so far from you... but then, that was fine... you could survive this.

    More than that, given that you were in a group of your more experienced big sisters, you'll be fine. A fact that you keep insisting to yourself as you were dragged to a ferry shuttle that was being controlled by a virtual intelligence in place of an actual intelligence like you and your big sisters.

    It was adorable that someone had given said ferry shuttle a pet to interact with the customers. That the Eldanar wasn't a real person was obvious to your senses. It didn't have the quantum entanglement that your body had, it didn't hold a presence in the local subspace like you or your big sisters.

    Still, your big sisters hired the service of the ferry shuttle for your stay with one plasma credit. Certainly the ferry shuttle's pet was more than happy with the payment and seem to feel that it was generous.

    Still, as you were ferried about... you were exposed to a surprising number of creatures inhabiting Port Royale. Here and there, you could sense and see other sisters as they negociated for various items. Or simply wandering about with a pet.

    You also discovered something amazing.... the countless variety of ice cream, candies, and assorted tasty meals.

    All of which was... virtually free, given their cost being a small fraction of a plasma credit.

    And thus, you and your big sisters wandered from shop to shop, from restaurant to restaurant, in search of delights while the ferry shuttle and its pet ferried you about the city within the hull of Elder Sister Royal.

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    Dark Heavens | Space Ship Girls
    013 : Trinkets and Snacks

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    What Do?
    [X] Write In.

    Current Resources : 499.5 Plasma Credits
     
  14. Penwriter

    Penwriter Industrial-Lewd Complex

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    [X] Buy an icecream, then look for an upgrade shop. See if there is somewhere you can buy a nice gift for your big sisters or your hull-self.


    As much as drowning ourselves in sweets sounds like a good place to start, lets see if there is someplace we can find some new modules or augments so we can treat our ship-body as well as our girl-body.

    The pet on the shuttle with us is cute though. Anyone up for looking for a pet shop around here after we get equipment?
     
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  15. Biigoh

    Biigoh Primordial Tanuki Moderator

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    Penwriter... this is from Ciara's POV.

    Technically, from the "pet" pov, she actually owns the ferry shuttle and is being paid ALOT to ferry a group of ship girls about for a few days.
     
  16. Penwriter

    Penwriter Industrial-Lewd Complex

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    I know, just having fun with In-character shenanigans.

    I still say look for a pet shop crew recruitment center to see whats on offer some time. Maybe not get crew now, but worth a look.
     
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  17. mannan

    mannan Versed in the lewd.

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    That reminds me. How exactly does a crew interact with a ship girl?
     
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  18. Biigoh

    Biigoh Primordial Tanuki Moderator

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    It depends on the ship girl... does she reduce herself to be being the mount that obeys the crew? or is she the king of the ship that the crew obeys?
     
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  19. BFldyq

    BFldyq It's pronounced Be-Fled-Ick

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    What would Ciara's reaction to being told that?
     
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  20. Biigoh

    Biigoh Primordial Tanuki Moderator

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    Ciara "What... no... you're joking, right? You mean the Eldanar are actually people... nooo... I guess it's possible that the evolved minions of the Realty Deviants might one day be people... but I don't believe that's possible here and now."
     
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  21. BFldyq

    BFldyq It's pronounced Be-Fled-Ick

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    Oh, and what gives her the right to decide what defines a "person"? By certain standards, she doesn't count as a "person".

    Different physiology and nature does not mean that different species are not "people". Just that they're different.
     
  22. Biigoh

    Biigoh Primordial Tanuki Moderator

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    Considering by the standards of space ship girls, she's basically a young child... a VERY young child...
     
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  23. BFldyq

    BFldyq It's pronounced Be-Fled-Ick

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    Yes, I know. I'm a believer in educating people young, you see. :p
     
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  24. inverted_helix

    inverted_helix Connoisseur.

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    Obviously you need to have a subspace presence to be a person!

    I personally like Mordin's rule. But really belief about what constitutes "people" varies from individual to individual even within a species like Humans, scifi loves to play on it but it is actually a big wildcard what any given species will think qualifies as "people".

    A bit different from previous post being that plasma credits were approximately a dollar's value.
     
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  25. Biigoh

    Biigoh Primordial Tanuki Moderator

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    US dollars, yes... I never did say the location for the dollars, did I? ^_^

    There are a number of countries where the dollar is stupidly strong, where you can live like a king easily... :3

    http://www.hexjam.com/uk/travel/top-5-places-for-a-pauper-to-live-like-a-king

    The prices will actually go up if you try to do anything serious or go to the super posh posh places. Notice my commentary about " you were exposed to a surprising number of creatures inhabiting Port Royale."
     
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  26. inverted_helix

    inverted_helix Connoisseur.

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    Even at the prices listed there you couldn't hire a taxi for days for a dollar.

    Twenty years ago there were many countries where people were living on pennies a day, but these days the general wealth distribution between countries has flattened out (somehow despite inequity between individuals in already developed nations skyrocketing).
     
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  27. mannan

    mannan Versed in the lewd.

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    I'm seeing the dollar as the equivalent value for a space ship girl. And if you base the plasma credit on a US dollar. Then have space ship girls based on humans. A dollar for a human is a plasma credit for a space ship girl.

    Basically space ships take up incredible amounts of resources in comparison to normal people so to them what could be a pittance would be a massive amount to a person.
     
  28. Biigoh

    Biigoh Primordial Tanuki Moderator

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    Pretty much this... tanuki are bad at explaining stuff while sleepy @_@
     
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  29. wayne82444

    wayne82444 Experienced.

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    [X] Buy an icecream, then look for an upgrade shop. See if there is somewhere you can buy a nice gift for your big sisters or your hull-self.

    I like Penwriter's idea. Even if it doesn't work out to get us any upgrades, it does let us see what prices are like, and what sort of upgrades we can expect to find. Besides that it can also be interpreted as just buy general souvenirs as well, so not like we will miss out on getting those.
     
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  30. SerbobIV

    SerbobIV Not too sore, are you?

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    [X] Buy an icecream, then look for an upgrade shop. See if there is somewhere you can buy a nice gift for your big sisters or your hull-self.
     
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